my book was moby-dick and my sentence was.
halting for an instant at the foot of the ladder, and with both hands grasping the ornamental knobs of the man-ropes, father maple cast a look upwards, and then with a truly sailor - like but still reverential dexterity, hand over hand, mounted the steps as if ascending the main-top of his vessel...
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"It had gone back noticeably even from that morning at the vet's office."
This is the first sentence, about a dogs cataract lol I like the second one a little better."That side of Peter's face was lit with a lurid green light, making him look like a comic-book monstrosity."
Book is The Tommyknockers

And Decay...
As they drove over the rough roads, Hydt's attention momentarily slipped to a construction about half a mile away. A new building was nearing completion. It was identical to two that stood already in the grounds; Five story boxes from which a chimney rose, the sky above them rippling from the rising heat.

Well, the first book I grabbed was the manual for a Walther PPQ M Series pistol, but it doesn't have 45 pages. Well, it does, but it keeps resetting back to 1 when the language changes. So, from page 45 of The Black Code

The author goes on to explain how many of the cables' onshore landing stations are sometimes "laying out on the sand like an abandoned boogie board," and how the cables could be severed with a few swings of an axe.

A betch must understand what it means to have self-control. This may sound counterintuitive, probably due to the fact that we preach drinking till you can't remember anything, but even with blacking out, there is a technique involved. That technique is called "don't fucking die"